Elements of Gallows Humor in Vonnegut s Slaughter House Five

This study analyzes the outstanding satirist Kurt Vonnegut s novel Slaughter-house-five to demonstrate how the elements of Gallows Humor are applied to provide a better understanding of the author s worldview and of his narrative process. This is an anti-war book in which Vonnegut has attempted to blend the serious theme with humor. Through the choice of his protagonist- Billy Pilgrim- and the manipulation of black humor,Vonnegut exposes the atrocities of war from a new viewpoint. The focal point is to extract the phrases containing gallows humor, a sort of black humor, to be studied and explained by details, accordingly some literary terms are to be precisely defined and the unique styleof writing is indispensable.

کلیدواژه ها:

Anti-war ، Black Humor ، Gallows Humor ، Satire ، Humor ، Vonnegut